A Very happy Camper on FC4

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue May 16 07:55:54 UTC 2006


On 5/16/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 02:31 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 5/16/06, Stephen Mirowski <spmirowski at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > > [ snip ]
> > > >
> > > >>     The windows XP was a huge improvement over windows ME which was a
> > > >> bag of bugs. My wife bought a computer that came with ME. She had
> > > >> several problems and called a kid who lived down the street but is now
> > > >> an up an coming Microsoft manager. She called him and he said delete ME
> > > >> and load the XP Home and you will be happy. She has been but I'm tired
> > > >> of buying virus programs :-)
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Karl
> > > >
> > > > Not for me. I much prefer Windows ME to Windows XP. However, newer
> > > > Windows only applications tend not to work in ME. But I still prefer
> > > > Windows ME to XP.
> > > >
> > > Strange thing about ME.  On a percentage of installs on a percentage of
> > > hardware profiles, it will act like the best operating system every
> > > made.  However, when doing the math, a percentage of a percentage isn't
> > > much.  I figure the quality installs of ME is about 0.00001%
> > >
> > > Stephen
> > >
> >
> > I guess I was lucky and within that percentage. But here's some of the
> > issues i have with WinXP: I tend to "fix" computer for friends and
> > family, and with Windows XP i have seen many errors, when after
> > tickering and Googling, the best solution seems to be to just
> > reinstall. I was able to _never_ reinstall my Windows ME, and still
> > have it working well. Also, with ME, i could simply copy drivers and
> > .inf files to where they need to be and have thigns work. That simply
> > is not possible with WInXP.
>
> I personally wouldn't touch ME with a bargepole. I've tried a few times
> on different systems and found it incredibly unstable. I think it was a
> major regression from Windows 98 Second Edition, which is actually quite
> usable and stable.
>
> I've also found Win2000 and WinXP quite stable, as long as you can get
> the right drivers for what you're using - obviously Win9x drivers won't
> work as they're 16 bit.
>
> Paul.
>

Would you happen to remember if you had "Plug and play OS" enabled in
the BIOS of those systems? I seem to remember that being a big deal
for WinME

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